Midwest Literature: The Farm Background (1970)

Dramatizes works by James Whitcomb Riley, Hamlin Garland, Ole Rolvag and Willa Cather, analyzing literature in terms of the midwestern farmland where the writers were raised. Illustrates how the region shaped the writers and how the writers taught the people of the world to look at the midwestern farmland. We digitized and uploaded this film from the A/V Geeks 16mm Archive. Email us at footage@avgeeks.com if you have questions about the footage and are interested in using it in your project.